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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 13
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Israel and Judah shall be as a rotted and decayed girdle—Repentance enjoined—Judah shall be taken captive and scattered as stubble.
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Thus</span> saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
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So I got a girdle according to the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and put <i>it</i> on my loins.
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And the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto me the second time, saying,
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Take the girdle that thou hast got, which <i>is</i> upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
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So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> commanded me.
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And it came to pass after many days, that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.
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Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
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Then the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto me, saying,
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, After this manner will I mar the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Pride.">pride</a> of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
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This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/10a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB stubbornness.">imagination</a> of their heart, and <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/13/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Walking in Darkness.">walk</a> after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
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For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 1: 20.">hear</a>.
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&#182; Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
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Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 23: 33.">drunkenness</a>.
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And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 1: 13 (4-13); 1 Ne. 2: 13.">destroy</a> them.
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&#182; Hear ye, and give ear; be not <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Pride.">proud</a>: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath spoken.
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Give glory to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, before he cause <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Darkness, Spiritual.">darkness</a>, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, <i>and</i> make <i>it</i> gross darkness.
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But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for <i>your</i> pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Church.">flock</a> is carried away captive.
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Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, <i>even</i> the crown of your glory.
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The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open <i>them:</i> Judah shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 14 (10-16); 2 Kgs. 25: 11 (1-12); 2 Ne. 6: 8.">carried</a> away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
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Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where <i>is</i> the flock <i>that</i> was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
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What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee?  for thou hast taught them <i>to be</i> captains, <i>and</i> as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
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&#182; And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me?  For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 2: 3.">skirts</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/13/22b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB stripped off.">discovered</a>, <i>and</i> thy heels made bare.
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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?  <i>then</i> may ye also do <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 5: 40; D&C 33: 4.">good</a>, that are accustomed to do evil.
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Therefore will I <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 10: 12 (12-14); 1 Ne. 22: 3 (3-4).">scatter</a> them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
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This <i>is</i> thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
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Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
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I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, <i>and</i> thine <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/13/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 19; 1 Ne. 1: 13.">abominations</a> on the hills in the fields.  Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem!  wilt thou not be made <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/13/27b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 24: 13.">clean</a>?  when <i>shall it</i> once <i>be?</i>
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